Source: libstring-tokenizer-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Ben Webb Standards-Version: 3.9.7 Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/String-Tokenizer Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libstring-tokenizer-perl.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libstring-tokenizer-perl.git Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libstring-tokenizer-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: simple string tokenizer String::Tokenizer is a simple string tokenizer which takes a string and splits it on whitespace. It also optionally takes a string of characters to use as delimiters, and returns them with the token set as well. This allows for splitting the string in many different ways. . This is a very basic tokenizer, so more complex needs should be either addressed with a custom written tokenizer or post-processing of the output generated by this module. Basically, this will not fill everyones needs, but it spans a gap between simple split / /, $string and the other options that involve much larger and complex modules. . Also note that this is not a lexical analyser. Many people confuse tokenization with lexical analysis. A tokenizer mearly splits its input into specific chunks, a lexical analyzer classifies those chunks. Sometimes these two steps are combined, but not here.